SAN FRANCISCO -- Privacy watchdogs are demanding answers from Apple Inc. about why iPhones and iPads are secretly collecting location data on users -- records that cellular service providers routinely keep but require a court order to disgorge.
It's not clear if other smartphones and tablet computers are logging such information on their users. And this week's revelation that the Apple devices do wasn't even new -- some security experts began warning about the issue a year ago.
But the worry prompted by a report from researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden at a technology conference in Sa...

Any old beatnik can throw on the black and call himself "hip," but white requires a special brand of cool.
Think White Album. Think Tom Wolfe. Think iPhone.
That last one may require a little patience.
The iPhone comes in black, but Apple has been promising a white model since early last summer when it released the iPhone 4.
Last fall, bloggers teased Apple fans with photos of snow-white iPhones and indicators that they were ready for order, a rumor Apple quickly squelched.
All winter, tech writers have been jabbering about the new color's possible debut. AOL's Engadget noted in February ...